My Xbox Series X experience wasn't great.

[TriflingToad]

This is why emulation is vital to our digital history. We cannot trust big companies to keep our hobbies alive so we must ensure it ourselves.

[iielysiumx]

Game publishers “emulators are piracy”

Also game publishers: won’t support games for more than a few years and actively make it hard to play old games

[hammyjammies]

Seeing Wade going through those classic games was like the most depressing nugget lucky dip episode ever

[Sharkpu]

5:58 First time I've actually heard him say "Cash Converters" instead of "Cashies"

[VincentMcmanus.]

It's outrageous that gaming companies get so mad that people use emulators.

[sirhcx]

Backwards compatibility all boils down to licensing since alot of companies dont want you to play your 20 year old disc, they want you to buy the "improved" version on the digital storefront for $40. The fact that Halo didnt work and the bluray app didnt install is truly bizarre though.

[tomurban]

This video is basically 15 minutes of dankpods slowly descending into insanity

[symphoricquoz]

This is a great practical demonstration of why there needs to be a massive, vicious effort to archive and preserve games; if you need to buy hardware, that isn't being sold officially, in order to play a game, that isn't being sold officially, and the only official alternative either has no compatibilty with said game, or has a hard requirement to use internet connected services, you haven't made that game accessible, you've just given it a second time limit until it returns to being unplayable at best, and did nothing whilst wasting resources at worst.

[jml]

the reason why almost no racing games from that era work is due to copyright laws on the car desgns which is a real shame

[InformatrIIcks]

I'm a firm believer that if a company stop supporting a piece of software it should be mandatory to make it open source.
You don't want to give us a way to legally play a game ? fine. Let a team of fan build an emulator from the source code.

(This would actually be a massive deal in the industrial world where abandonware is so common you frequently see WIndows95 machines operating equipment worth millions of bucks, and if they fail the whole factory basically shuts down...)

[zdanee]

Fun fact: the xbox is actually not backwards compatible with _any- of the games at all whatsoever. What it _can_ do is check your disk if it's genuine, and download an emulator and an ISO of the game already in the drive to play it for you. It would be possible to download an emulator, make an ISO from the disc in the drive right at that moment in time and be basically backwards compatible with all xbox games, but no, they cannot let you play your own old games if it's downloaded or emulated, because that would be _piracy_ according to their lawyers, or the wouldn't be able to play stupid at court and _tell the judge it is_ so there.

[glitchydust]

the way this guy handle physical content made me shivers.

[liam]

I think the way running Xbox games on the series X is, it just downloads a compatibile version rather than actually running the dvd

[dhoffnun]

Fun fact; from a USB device perspective, there is no distinction between the Black-and-White buttons on old Xbox controllers and the L and R shoulder buttons on newer ones. ALSO! If you're into mech games like BEA and Phantom Crash... well... you GOTTA check out Armored Core 6.

[ZulqarnainAidil]

The big problem is the big “controversy” around emulation. Microsoft wants the marketing but not the “legal repercussions”, plus they do actually have to put in the work to not only have it play but also to make sure it’s enhanced and plays well.

Original publishers don’t want it and in true Microsoft fashion, they just gave up

[TruxtonII]

The funny thing is for less than the price of a Series X you could have bought a modded Original Xbox with fixed capacitors that could run games off disc, store nearly the whole library in its storage and had HDMI output to play it on modern TVs.

[franciscogimenez]

this dude can make content out of not playing video games

[ShutUpBubi]

Damn I didn't realize backwards compatibility was that neutered

[Turtles]

Watching him slowly lose his mind as the Xbox continued to be troublesome was probably the best part of this thanksgiving lmao

[LavenderRebellin]

this is why I still have a 360. The amount of backwards compatible games is larger than what the Series X will have and if I wanna play games that were on the One/Series X, I got a laptop. Also this video got me to get Project Gotham from a pawn shop and man is it a treat.